scenic

A from-source declarative Linux distribution written in disciplined C23.

Build

make registry
make
sudo ./nb validate
sudo ./nb switch

design choices (subject to change)

• no daemon. Single-user model. nb switch runs as root, does its work, exits. No persistent process, no IPC, no socket protocol.
• no custom config DSL for v0.1. The user's config is plain C against the schema. A translator to a friendlier syntax can be added later without changing the core.
• content-addressed store. /nb/store/<hash>-<name>-<version>/. The hash includes the pkg's deps' store paths transitively, so any change in any dep reshuffles every dependent.
• generations are immutable; rollback is symlink swap. The previous generation always remains bootable until garbage-collected.